Japanese Graphics Now!

While at Ikebukuro’s Parco yesterday — I wanted to check out the renewed spaces for the Graniph and Smith (Delfonics) stores — I was very happy to find that the Taschen JAPANESE GRAPHICS NOW! book has joined their 25th anniversary program, and so picked it up for 2000 yen! It’s a great book, and I still can’t believe they’re selling it so cheap.

Category: Books • Design

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That’s an excellent book, and I’m jealous of the price you got it for. My copy is the original one. Do they have all the content of the orignal versions, or are the 25th Anniversary editions cut down, since they seem a lot smaller in size?

06.04.30 23:01
Posted by Nathan Adams
As far as I know, it’s the same book — it’s huge!

06.05.01 0:36
Posted by Jean Snow
By huge I mean the page count.

06.05.01 0:36
Posted by Jean Snow

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